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aith 44.tu and IllraIcI, WINNS110RO, 8. 0. Thursday, October 26, : 1876 JNO. S. REYNOLDS, Editor. FOR PREsIDENT, 8.4MUEL J. TILDEA of New York. FOR VICE PREsIDENT, .THOS. .4. IIRNDRICKS, of Indiana. FOR GOVERNOR, WADE HAMPTON, of Riclihland. FOR LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR, W. D. SIMPSON, of Laurons. FOR sT'kTE TREASURER, S. L. LEAPHART, of Riehland. FOR COMPTROLLER GENERAL, JOHNSON HAGOOD, of Barnwoll. FOR SECRETARY OF STATE, i. M. SIMS, of York. FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL, JAM/S CONNER, of Charleston. FOR SUPERINTENDENT OF EDUCATION. HUGH S. THOMPSON, of Riciland. FOR ADJUTANT GENERAL, E. W. MOISE, of Suiter. FOR CONoRESS, FOURTH DIHTRICT, J. H. EVINS, of Spartanburg. FOR SOLICITOR OF TiHE SIXTH CIRCUIT T. C. GASTON, of Chester. Wlien Corbin was dragooning thc Stato in 1871 ho tickled Cliamber lain with fees. Now that Clianiber lain is dragooning the Stato, he tickles Corbin with fees. The patriotism of each is measured by dollars and cents. The Radieals became spasmodic over the allusion madie by Major MAois(), in his )Ch itt Winnsboro, to .Iutus and Charlotto Corday. Whlat convulsions they arc sp)aredl *in tho neglect of the speaker to ijn. elade Jack Ketch as anotl3,.W aveng ing Nollusis!._ Thel conisti tu tioni providesl that no judicial officer shall sit upon01 his own CasO. Tholi managers of election and the State board of canvassers cannot decide questions arising in regardl to their own election. Tlhiis vacates the State b~oardI and will (tansO many candidates, who are also 'ommllissionlers, to take hack seats. Tho gratifiying intell igon(eo roaches us that thueoffect of the recent proclamnations has only 1boon to still further solidi fy thle D emocracy all over the State. Enithuisiasm at the recenit Democratic 1moot inlgs has boon unbounded. TIhe necessity'of electing Hamp ton has beomotieali m1ore appalrenlt. We canniot livo nder aniotherw termi of Chanmberlia. Groonville and1( Sp)artanburg to gether promiso a majority of five thousand, a gain of three thousand live hundred votes over the last election. Three thtousanid fivo hmn dlredI from two thousand leaves an algebraio expression. M~r. W~allace may p~eruso with b~onofit (lhe chapter oni negativo quantities. Un fortunately, however, for himm, eon grossmoni are choson according to the rules of arithmetic, where the minus sign is not recognized. Chamberlain is als much01 resp~onsi ble0 for the murder of the white men01 at Cainbiow as if lhe himself had fireod the g' s thaut killed themii. The lawless and mluderous conduct of the negroes is the natural fruit of his course in rogardl to the Hlamburg ainhir, and the teachings he has omI bodied ini his prFoclamations--above all in his actionsq as to the Elontom riot and his general course since he sold1 out to the Elliott-Pattersoni crew. And, wvhatever may lbe his course in future, the people of South Carolina should r'emnember him as thme cause of the worst of all their troubles. The high-handed proceoodings in Aiken and Barnwell, far from check.. ing the progress of the Deomocra tic canvass or cooling the ardor (of tihe peoplek, have had just thle opplosite effect. The honest and law-abiding people1, Rooing~ that Chiamberla in, treaehorous an -1 hyp'criticatl ats be is, can hever. bring genuino .psdeo ind. piosperity to State, are more than over arousel to the necessity of a Domocratic triumph. Their -erts, from this time till the polls close on the seventh of November, will be more earnest, more powerful, more aggressive than ever. South Carolina is represented by her Massachusetts governor to be in a state of insurrection. Armed band3 are said by him to be con stantly roaming over the State, kill ing or maiming helpless Republicans. The civil arm is said to be paralyzed. And bayonot are needed to enforce the law. Yet there is no instance given of anyresistance to law oxcopt by a mob of Radical negroes. The judges, ebriffs, magistrates, munici pal officors all, as far as heard from, unite in saying that the profoundest peace prevails, and that there is no resistance to the civil authority. It is in the face of such facts, proven by the testimony of Republican officials, that the governor threatens mial tal law and calls on the Presi dont for troops to garrison the State. The address of the State Demo cratic Executive Counmitteo is a completo vindication of the people from the vile slanders committed upon them by ChamberlIin, and mado the basis of the Presidont's proclamation. In dispassionate and respectful language it sets forth the actual stato of affairs, and shows the utter falsity of the Governor't: charges. It disavows any disrespect of the President of the United States, and asserts theentiro fidelity of the Democracy of the State to the Union and the laws. It admonishes the people to the exercise of pi-r donco and forbearance, and advises them to abstain from the exercise of a right, that no pretext may be given to charge thom with lawlessness. As a whole, the address is an able and impressive document, and it will he received by right-min led people everywhere as an impartial statement of the general situation in South Carolina. The articlo published elsewhere, taken from the News and Uourier will give some idea of the pretexts seized by the hirelings of Corbin and Chamberlain to arrest whito and e *art- I D)mocratr. The United ttes comnmissioners work in the intlost of the Radical crow, and do all in their p)owe; r to procure accusa tions of leading white men. Eaton hinli, it, would. suom, virtually ad mittoed having "cooked" a negro witness. There has been no injus tice more p~alp~able, no tyranny more cruel andi iniqiuitouis, than is found in the action of the Uniteo1 States au thiorities in Aiken and Blarnwoll. Men have been arrested upon grounds that didl not furnish evemn flimsy pretexts. Yet the (o umir sioners, acting under general orders, have held such men to heavy bail. The arrests have beeni made at night, and t'te 1p1iion(ers subjoeted to much neeii 'css suffering. Tihe examninat'om han've been dlelayedl as mluch as pt Foi b)1o, and bail has been arbitrarily re fused in some cases. And all this is en the falso and ab~isurd statement that theE lonton riots were the re suilt of a general Conspiracy aimoedat the political rights of the negroes of of Aiken and Blarnw ell ! The Cainhoy Massacre. IThe details now known of the killing of tho white men by negroes at Cainhoy last wvook only show it to have boon a most brutal and treacherous murder. An arrange Imont had been entered into beCtWOon the D~emnocratic and the Republican County Chairman for a joint dis cuss!onl. It wals distinctly st ipulated that in ordler to ensure peacefrul (is cussion, no one should carry arms to the meeting. In violation of this agreement the Ra~dical negroes went to Cainhoy with their guns, those who attended the meeting concealing them in thme woodls near at hand. While thme speaking was going on a panrty of whites discover oel these arms, and at onco the ne.. groes endeavored to seize the giums. A slight commotion ensued, and simultaneously with it, and before a single shot was fired, -the negroes advanced from the wVood1s in regular skirmishing ordler, and fired upon the whites. The negroes aroud the stand, at a signal, immediately rushed into the woods, seized their arms, and united in the attack upon thme whitce. In the fight that en mmued the hatter were at the greatest disadvantage, most of them being entirely unarmoed and thme rest having only small pocket-pistols almost use.. less in a light. Buit one negro was killed, while five white men lost their lives amnd several woe womnd. ed. A company of Fderal troops is now stationed at Cainhoy, and no further trouble a typrended6. Oharberilain tatgraphied to Bowern, who is sheriff of Charleston couDty. to have all the guilty parties arrested I Nothing is said about the powerless ness of the law to apprehend the offenders, and no such action is taken similar to that of the. Gover nor upon the Hamburg riot. White men wore treacherously an I brutally murdered, but that is of little mo ment in the eyes of the unscrupu lous demagogue and oily-tongued hypocrite. who now disgraces the highest oflico in the gift of tile peo ple of South Carolina. Indeed the Govei nor scoms not a little inclined to accept as truthful and final the lying statement of Bowen that the difficulty arose from an attack inade by the whites upon an old colored man. 'Ih's affair is in every respect worse than the killing of the no groes at Hamburg. In the one case there w.ts a mob of lawless blacks whose conduct was offensive and dangerous to all good citizens; who wore banded together as a military company without the sanction of any coinpetent authority; who wore insolent in their conduct towards persons in no way offending or molesting thei ; and who re fused cit her to dis)and or to cease their unlawful doings. It was such a body of lawbro:ikers that suffered in the Hamburg riot. At Cainhoy the two parties hl d mot for a law ful and )eaCeful purpose ; it was agreed that nonQ should liuve fire arins; there was no good ground for the whites to approhend any dttack, and they went totally un prepared ; the Iltcks violated thoi pledges by going with their muskets :nd concealing thon near by ; an( they sciz',d the first )rctext for an attack upon the whites. Their con duct was infinitely worse than that of the whites at Hamburg, and showed a degree of treachory and )loodthilstiness which is aliosi wthout a par-ille in tho history of our State The brutality of theii eonduct was increased by theim savage botting of the wounded al( dying-the l( des of som< of those injured and thoso slaiv showing marks of most inhuniai treatmont. Such are the naini f.atures of the Cainhoy anti th< unmburg aff.irs. .But mark the difference in the action of the Gov .c n'or in the two cases ! Ini tihe one ho writes a heated, partisan, shan d erouis letter to Washington, an i afterwards makes tho aiYtir a text for rounds of abuse of 50om1 of the best men01 in the State-acting inl such a way as to convoy to the public mnid an utterly false im prossion~ of the affair and causing at the North volumes of abuse agatmst our people. This course suited his~ pmposo05, and served to win him friends among the nlegroes and wi~dte Radicals, and to bring ad ditional bayonets into tho State. The Cainhoy ma~ssacre is troated as compIIaratively a sma~ll matter. The lying statement of B3owen is tacitly accepted as a truthlful versionl of the difficulty, and he is simp~ly instruct od1 to arrest the offenders-just what he is already sworn to do! No letter is wvritten to Gr mnt or Senatom R obertsop, no0 pitifuI l1ppeal is sont t.) Washingtcn--.nay, worse than all. 1n0 horro'r, nlo regro.o is expressed at tile br1utal and barbarous miurdor. Such is the course of a man claim ig to h)o the governlor of South Carolina ! Snch is the Course of thle muan who lays claim to perllsonal honty~t, political intogrity! Is it any wvonder that such a man should ho0, as5 Ubiamlberlain is to-day, an object of contempt to all the best pleople of South Carolina, and that thoso 1)001)1 should be united inl an effort to hlurl from power the self-scoking, cold-hearted and m1en3 dicious demagogue wh) no0w dis.. graces tihe highest office inl the State? T1ho lessons to be learned from thme Cainhoy mlasacroe are those: 1. That the negroes are armed with guns withl the knowledge of thle State auithoritics. 2. That no0 agreement made by a Ra~dicall leader is worthy to be recognizod or re lied upon01. 3. That it is a settled feature of the Radical plan of ecam paign to diraw tihe whites into con flict with thme negroos. 4. That the Stato au thoritios hlave neither the' detsir~e nor the power to chock negro lawlossness. 5. That thle whites abould be fully prepared to act on the defensive. The New Standarst of Political Prophecy. The degree of cro'dit to be at tached to tile sincerity of a p)olitical D)rognostictiin nnown1ay. -ee. to| be measured by the amont .of money with which the prophet is willino to back his judgmet., - re effeotive than all tlei othek canvas serstt St. Louis was John Morrissoy *o in a voice by no means still and small exclaimed, "Ten-thousand dollars to five that Sam Tilden is nominated to-morrow. Put up or shut up." His opponents who had argued thomselves hoaree, while tiey were merely expending breath, prudestly shut up, and Sam Tilden began his course to the White House, impelled by the tidal wave of an almost unnimous nomination. John Morrissey' criterion has been universally accepted as the true st:ndard of measure. The question is not "For whom are you arguing?" but "On whom are you betting ?" We remember the happy rejoinder to an awkward question, made by a distinguished candidate-"I v-v-voted for Seymour and Blair, but I b-b-bet my money on Grant. His arguments iid 1-eon one way, his betting anoth er. He lost his vote but he won his m oney. Pool-selling has, in accordance with this view of things, become the measure of chances ; and the re uls, as to'ographed over the country on the wires of the associa ted press, are eagerly awiited every day. Before the October elections the changes in the pools measured correctly the vibrations of thepublic pulse. And it is proper to assume that the most accurate prognosjca tion of the result of ~Ahe g: eat November battle will be gathered, not from the Everetto Houso or the Fifth Avenue Hotel, whe.-e kid-gloved statesmen do most congregate, but from Ie magnificent lair of the tiger, of whom John Morrissey is the self-constituted keeper. The r.ars at present issuing from that den striko dismay int.? tie Radical ranks, and reassure and nerve every d )ubting Democrat. Before the [ndiana election the odds in favor of die elevation of Hayes to the presi dency were as ton to seven. That xlorious victory has strengthened Tildon, and now the two candidates are selling even in the pools, while the odds are two to one in favor of Til (Ion sweeping the State of New York. Partisan journals may sling ink mid expend reams of paper in prophe ying the election of their respective -andidatos ; but the public car v..l ,)o turned away to catch tho clixidug of bright eagles, or the rustAg f t e crisp, newv greenbacks~ as the3 fall upon the counter in the pool room. AL prosent too balance is on dhe Democratic side of the ledger; .and all signs are propitious that on the seventh day of November those who have ''b-bet their money on T yildca" will present their cards, sweep the pools, andl walk off' with plethoric pockets, and wvith a strong or coriv.ction than ever of the abso lute propriety and exceeding great isidom of "backing their judgment." W e advise our readers not to permit their prejudice or their niewspapers to warp their judgment. If they attend <i sely to the report of the pools, they will obti~n the most accurate estimate of the chances of the two parties that can be reached. Them pool1s, it is true, are not inifal '.ible, but they are the bost guides, A und the y ,f'wor' iihe ]kemocr'at . Two Lawbreakers that Should be Impeached. Apart from the question as to the expediency and pr'opriety of the ox traor'din ary conduct of CJhamberlaiuj and Grant in endeavoring to crumsF free ballot in South Carolina, some constitutional questions also arise. Article IV., Section 4, of the Con stitution of the United States de claresi that "The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a republican form of government, and shall p)rotec t each of them against invasion ; and on application of the Legislature, or ofj the e.e~euive (when the Legisatem~ Cannot be convened) against domes tic violence." On this the action of tha governor and the President is based. That no domestic violence exists, is proven boyond cavil b~y the testi mony of the justices andl judges of the State, the shoriff' of Aiken and B rnwell an 1 of other counties, and the evidtnce of officials exercising public duties in all parts of the State. Governor Chamberlain's prioclama.. bion is therefore utterly unwarrant-. rid in fact. But we propose to dwell upon th e egal aspect of then case. This also Llaces the governor in an ugly light. L'ho constitution provides that the LBxecutive may apply for apply for LPederal interference when the rlogislaturo cannot be convened. President Grant, with the happy aculty ho posseses of making law to uilt himself, gives as his reason for trantng Chamnb.1lain' reuest ta the ilegslature canno j," in tblie. It cn i60ly be demon strated, not only that the Leola.. tun, could have convened, but that it could have convened in time. The last. riot in the State, before the Cainhoys massacre (which ocqurred on the day the President'sproclama tion was issued) was .at IEllenton on the 19th of September. A week after this all bands had dispersed and the county was at peace. No attempt 1O(8 made to. invokce the aid of* the State coiuts to at-rest the alleged ofonders. It cannot then be said thab the Stato courts are or have been powerless. On the 7th of October Chamberlain's libelous proclamation Was issued. On the 19th of O3tober, Grant promulgated his decree. This covers a period of twelve days. Why could not Chamberlain have convened the LogislatureY Di.l domestic violence prevent this ? The State officials in Colubia, the county officials in the diff iron t counties, the members of the Legislature, were all walking about in perfoct security, while R idical conventions all over the State were howling and screaming and wrangling and lighting among themselves without molestation. The Legislaturo could have been con vened. Chamberlain knows it, Grant knows it, everybody else knows it. Chamberlain and Grant admit it. The latter alleges that the Legislature could not be con vened "in time." Will he or Chain berlain or soen other Radical answer why not? What complex machinery must have been set in motion to call it together ? What red tapo ceremony had to be firat performed ? Theconstitution of the State says merely that tho gover4] or "may on extraordinary occa Aons convene the General Asse.nbly." It imposes no limitation if time. Chamberlain could hn-e ordered the Legislature to co-vene on the same day the prolamation was issued, had he w ,shed it. The only limit is One fJundel on common sense-that auflicient time must be allowed t i oxtend the notice and to perinif whe members to reach Co mmg ia. The State capital is con tr !y located. RailroAds divergo into every part of South Carolina. Three days for notice and three days for assembling would have been sufficient in the grave emergency wihGovernor Chamberlain vio lently asuuned to exist. Giving the p~eople five days of time to disperse, Chamberlain, had he desired to obey thme conlstitutio.n and laws, couldc have issued his proclamation on the 12th, and bad tile Legislature in IColumbia by the 18th. An applica tioni from this body couldl have reached tihe President on the 21st, and as he has proven himself to be ever on tile alei t to obey the re quest of his minions, the dread proclamation Thight, have app1eared on tho wumo day. Then at least, however unwarranted by fact, it would have been decent and in ac cordance with the for:ns o' law. Whly was unot thlis course pursued? There can be b~ut one answer. Chamberlain feared, or knew, th1iat tile Logislature would not mnako tile application. As the juidges o'f thle State bravely and properly reinsedl to lend thlemselves to hlis dirty wvork, so hoe feared that tile Legislature mih emanly anid de(cenlt enfoughI treseto perjur*o thiomsolves by alleging tile existence of certain facts which did not exist. His game would have been blocked. F'odoral troops could1 not have boen brought to this State to do police duty at the bhost of worthless and uniscru pulou0s1 deputy marshals for whlom they have a contempt and loathing. Chamberlain and Grant havo placed themselves in an unlenviable posiion. They are obstructors of the law, and are com:nitting acts of violence against the people, against, the e t nstituti< n, anrd against decency and trulth. Thley deserve punishment and should bothl be im peachod. I Communication. It is ~withl regrob, thlat wO state that Mr. H1. D. Newton, whlo resided a short time since in Winnsboro, S. C., and who, by his strange behavior and expressions, annoyed tile inhlabitants of thlat p~lace, wasS not accountable,for his actions, as he was suffering from aberration of mind. Biy the advice of the physi cians in Charleston he has been sent to the lunatic ayshum in Ce lumnbia by his mother--who reqluests the editor of Tum NEWS AND IIERIALD to give thlis a place inl that paper'. Charleston, S. C., Oct. 16th, 1876. Thle colored- people in Abbeville county are joining the Democratic elubs by fifieu .OAMMN NGT. Every day adds name&"" 0 roll of colored Upmocrats in Colleton county. AThe colored Democratic club at Timmonsville has- already forty members, and still they come. The Radioal' tickets in Barnwell and Williamsburg are worse than ever before. Reform I Bowon seems to be running the Radical machine in Charleston county all to himself. His nomi nating convention will be hold on the 81st inst. The Unisi;-Jferald is a dirtier shoot now than ever before-not ex cepting. the days when Cass Uarven pentor filled it witi political filth. It is Chamberlain's organ ! The following meetings remain to be hold in the Demoncratic canvass: Colleton, Oct. 27; Charleston, O :t. 80; Georgetown, Nov. 1 ; Orangeburg, Nov. 3; Columbia, Nv. 4. At a Radical meeting at Darling t.m on the 18th inst., there were two bodies of armd negroes, with guns and fixed bayonets. Let's hear from our Massachusetts govern or. It was reported that Butcher Merrill wou~d arrive at ligoliold last week, but he is not comrro yet. He and (orbin and Chauberlain a'.e bosom friends, and all thra3are frnd of dirty work. As a result of the Radi',al pow wow at Manning, one coloeod Demo crat back-.lided, and about fifty colored Republicans &c'hor declared for Hampton, or expressed an in tintion not to vot,- at all. The notoriovi and vilanous C P. Leslie has gorau back to Barnwell, and it is exected that he will re ceive the Mndical nominnation for the State Fenate, instead of the man alroa'.ynomiinated. Reformr I Yhe marshals did some very di -ty 1.at none tho less congenial work at Aiken just after t to Democratic meeting. They arrested several gontleon present, among them Col. A. P. Butler, the marshal of the d o. Notwithstanding the absence of Hampton (who was provented from attending by the death - of a near relative) the Lexington meeting was a perfect success. The speeches were unusually fine, and the crowd wore in the best of spirits. Of course, Loxington is safe for Hanptor and Ref.>rm. Arbitrary arrests by Chamnberlain's minions did not check the aid r of the Aiken Democrats. The meeting hold there on Friday last was a grand anceess. There were present more than one thousand ioun ted mnlt, and upwards of four thousand persons in all. Addresses were Ama(le by Hampton, Simpsmon, G rv. Youmans and other-s. Everything wont off finely. The Claren don Radicals, when bout to hold their meeoting at Manning, askded permission to use the stand p~reviously ereeted by the Democrats, which was p~romfptly granlred. The Democratic county c ,nventioni was also inl session, arud taiking adlvantaigo of the apparn goodl feeling, the Democrats t'skes for a divfrion of time, wich was readily asserted to. Bat thae Demo cratic s'pezakors were frcqnelttly and rudely into r aptod, ;il. at last they left the meeting in natural disgusu. 'rie Radic:dls made a lame apology gor their indecent behavior. Hampton's meeting at Elgefield was fully up to the exp~ectationrs of the most enthusiastic. The mount ed prVocession, marrchling iln column (ot twos, wvas more than~ a mile long. The enthusiarsm natural to the Edgefield Democracy wals increased bly thle presence of General Hamp ton arnd those who ac'comp~anie-l humn. Everybody was in the finest spirits. Speechos~ were maide by Gen. Hampton, Col. Simpson, Jum ige Cooke, Jurdge Mackey, Col. iipscomnb, Gen. Gary, Mr. James G. Gibbes and othlers. The1 Elgefleld fello ws mean buisiness, and they arc sil 0 to win. After the Edgefiold Demnocr'atic moeting a imost diabolical mnurder was committed. As a party of whites woere returning from it they were firedl on b~y a party of negroes ml ambhushi. One man, Mr. Jno. Gilmore, was killed, and1( one wvounded. Another, going for the coroner, was likewise fired on and wounded. Great excitement natu. rally followed, and it 'was only thmrough tile powerful efforts of Generals Butler and (Gary, and others, that the whites were pro vented from punishing those sus pected of tihe murder-a party of negro militia living niear tire scene of the outrage. Several negroes have been arrosted and committed to jail, on suspicion of participation in the mnurder. Tihe Radicals had n mnoeting at Abbeville on tire 18thl, at which were present about two thlousand men31, women anid chilren. The Democrats were on hand iln force. and demanded a division of time. This being refused, they organivzed a meeting of thir~t own, and a splendid oneo it was The procession was~ three mniles long, and containled three thousand mounted men, by actual count--among themn sevon /hundred colored J.)erocrant, rfmo anid ulniformedl. There wore United States deputy marshals pr'esent with blank warrants, but the Domnoorats .i not afford thomnr the muchk desied prietexts for arresting urn offending citizens. Abbevillo will gave Hampton a heavy majority. Dunn's speech was full of vulgar andlying abuse of Wade Hampton. He is fol lownrg Chramrberlain's eram jt1e. . soeeneeus. Hog cholera prevails in TQnnossee. There was iecently a slight earth. quake at Louisville, Ky. Francis P. Blair thejournalist and statesman died on the 19th instant. Hon. James G. Taliferro, Jtdge of the Supreme Court of Louisiana, is dead. Not a single hldhal ballot *as cast in Miller county, Ga., at the lesb election. The Eastern question seems likely to resolve itself into a general Eu ropean war. Thieves relieved a Montreal pawn broker of $20,000 worth of diamonds a few days ago. Mrs. Hoqse, who killed her Ius b-ind, the famous divorce fa dr, has been acquitted. The Geor.gia Railr c Ad is in better condition tuan it hf:A beeen at any time sinc the war, Martin F '.:upper, the poet and philosophv strived in Naw York from E, glabd on Thursday. E., Morgan the Repubica can idate for Governor of New York ic large slave-holder in Cuba. The Europea war excitement has c.msed a geneoral advance in wheat of from two to four cents a bushel. The Society of the Cincinnati late ly met at Philadelphia, t; commemc rate the surrender of Lord Corn Wallis. The Rudisill mine, near Chariotte, N. C., is shortly to be re-oponed by a company of wealthy gentlemon of that city. The .argest single roof in the world is at of the Midland Railwj* station, at St. Pancras, which has a, ;pan of 240 fcet. The general convention of Univer 3alists from all parts of the United Stat's is in session in the city of Rochcster, New York. An appratus has lately boon in vented, which produces, in the re. ceiving oflice, a fac-inile of thehand writing of the serider of a telegraphic message. There was a sovoro hurricane at Key West, Florida, on the 19th inst. it is feared that thesteam tug God frey has been lost with all her crew. The Northfield bank robbers havo bcen captured by the citizens of Dakota, after a desperato fight in which one was killed and three others were severely wounded Five cadet midshipmen havelatoly boon dismissed from the Naval Academy at Annapolis, for refusing to tell the names of those who had bo a hazing the freshmen. A terrible b.>ler oxcplosion occur red at Carhon Hill coal mines ini Vu~gma on t.mo 17th~ of October in s..ant. T1wo men were instantly killed, and one fatally injured. Tie Centennial has beon a great haustt no: of marriages throughout the e ,antry. People h tve rushed intLo mlatrimonmy so they couild g. to t'ie Centenni~d o ia wedlding tour. The loss to shipping on the lakes li is been parxtientairly severely this so Lsonl. A ldrge numbeor of vessels 11 Lvo not been nmeardl from, and are saipposed to be sunk with all on boa&rd. .On Sunday night a fire occurred im the cotton yard of the Georgia RI .ilroad depot,:at Augusta, in wvhish .wout one nundred and fifty bales of cotton wvore destroyed. Loss, $ 3,000, two-thirds insured. The ,government p~roper'ty at 11.u per' aiFerry was sold on Tihurs daty last, under a -decree of the United States Court. The property was bought in by the government agent, with tihe exception of two dweliing lots, purchased by citizens of tihe plaice. Two men of Atlanta, Ga., had a little pistol practice in Peachtree street of that city, a few days ago,, and one of them succeeded in bring mng dowvn an outsider very neatly. '.his method of settling a difficulty isprl riia with Atlanta, but Half a dozen railroad negr undertook to mob a Democratic dlarkey, at Greensboro, Ga., last Saturday night, but ran against the sharpest kind of a snag, and were glad to gixve up the job as soon as they forund the wvhite people were takmng a hand in the fun. Glen. B. F. Butler, in his speech at Andover, Mass., on the 18th in stant said: "The elections of tihe patst week shmow that there is to be a contest of the most determined character, a contest which is doubt ful. .I say it franidy :-Mr. Tilden's eleetion is not impossible; nay, not impllrobable." Intelligence received at Wasihing ton from theo States of Ohio, Michi gan and Wisconsin is such as to give thle Democratic leaders hopes which they have ,not (dared to entertain before. It is said that in Wisconsin the disaffction in the Republica 1party is so widespread, particularly amongte rmans, as to make it not nuprobalie that the State will cast its electoral vote for Tilden. In Michigan it is alleged that there is danger of the Republicans losing the State on account of tihe intense dis gust that Secretary Chandler is run flng the Republican election machine. Many of tihe most prominent Repub lican party leadei s are refusing to take any muterest in the canvass. From Ohio the news comes that tihe Democrats there are entering anew m io the canivalas with the confident exp~eAtation of Wiping out the small Rtonublien n maorit of Ocoer